AbsInt provides advanced development tools for embedded systems, and tools for validation, verification and certification of safety-critical software.

AbsInt’s tools are designed to enhance software safety, speed up time-to-market, lower testing and validation costs and to improve software efficiency to reduce system costs for embedded, real-time, safety-critical applications. The tools are based on a generic and generative framework which allows an extremely quick, sound and flexible response to customer needs. This has been more than proven in a series of successful projects and by outstanding customer satisfaction.

Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are critical. AdaCore's flagship product is GNAT Pro, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology, including the SYSGO ELinOS Industrial Grade Linux product. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/ for more information.

Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow, especially in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris.

aicas is the premier vendor of hard real-time Java Virtual Machines for embedded applications. JamaicaVM, aicas's flagship product, is unique in its market segment: It is the only system whose real-time performance is guaranteed. aicas serves the aerospace, industrial control, instrumentation and automotive markets, among others. The company's headquarters are in Karlsruhe, Germany, with subsidiary offices in the USA and Japan. In addition, aicas has reseller relationships with a group of highly qualified companies in Europe and Asia.

Atego (formerly Aonix) is the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware. Atego delivers a stable, robust working environment to thousands of users across an extensive range of complex applications in demanding engineering sectors such as aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, telecommunications, electronics, and medical.

Atego delivers the highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution (Aonix PERC®) for running Java™ programs deployed today and has the largest number of certified Ada applications (Aonix ObjectAda®) at the highest level of criticality. Atego’s standards-based tool suite, Artisan Studio®, provides comprehensive support for the leading industry standards, including OMG SysML, UML and Architectural Frameworks. Atego Workbench™ provides a fully integrated, collaborative engineering framework for the trouble-free deployment and maintenance of best-in-class tools for mission and safety-critical systems and software development.

Datalight is the software expert for powerful device data storage solutions. Since the invention of flash memory, Datalight has provided trusted solutions that support the broadest array of flash memory technologies and operating systems. When performance, data integrity, time to market and design flexibility matter, the world’s leading device manufacturers invest in solutions from Datalight. Our product line includes: FlashFX Tera – The intelligent flash manager for rapid integration of flash memory into any embedded system, and Reliance Nitro – the fault-tolerant performance file system for rapid development of reliable devices. From the bottom of the ocean to the depths of space, Datalight provides software for risk-free data on successful devices.

The integration of Scade Suite with the Safe and Secure Virtualization PikeOS offers the most flexible solution for safety-critical systems, beyond the classical ARINC-653 compliancy and the DO-178B or EN50128 certification requirements.

Esterel Technologies is the worldwide leader of model-based design and verification tools for critical embedded systems. It is a privately held company with European headquarters in Elancourt France and U.S. headquarters in Boston Massachusetts with direct sales offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and China.

Lauterbach is a completely independent and privately held company and the world’s leading manufacturer of complete, modular microprocessor development tools with 30 years experience in the field of embedded designs. It is an international, well established company with blue chip customers in every corner of the globe and has a close working relationship with all semiconductor manufacturers. Besides the Headquarters in Höhenkirchen, Germany, the company has its own branch offices in United Kingdom, Italy, France, on the East and West coasts of the United States, Japan and China. Highly qualified sales and support engineers are also available in many other countries.

Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS) is the leading global provider of middleware solutions for inter-process communication for disparate systems. OIS offers ultra-low latency, real-time connectivity software development tools for use in complex and demanding environments, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, telecommu- nications, financial, medical, robotics, industrial automation, and consumer electronics. The ORBexpress product family is the most widely deployed communications framework for distributed and heterogeneous systems where failure is not an option.

ORBexpress is a high performance, secure real-time implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. The ORBexpress product provides a common communication platform that is available on a variety of processors, operating systems, compilers, and in C++, Ada, Java and VHDL for FPGA implementations.

OpenSynergy delivers the standards-based software platform COQOS to the automotive industry. It enables the integration of Linux- and Android-based software frameworks into an AUTOSAR-compatible car environment. This way consumer electronics technology can be reused in the car and can be connected safely and securely to the car network. Because of the modular approach of COQOS, it can be employed in head units, instrument clusters and for connectivity or driver assistance systems. In addition, OpenSynergy offers consulting and engineering services for software development and software architecture in the areas of infotainment, connectivity and AUTOSAR.

PEAK-System Technik GmbH was founded in June 1999, and its operational headquarters are in Darmstadt. The company has 25 employees. Development engineers, electronic engineers, sales personnel and management and administration. (As at Jan.2007).

The object of the company is the development, sale and distribution of hardware and software products. It focuses principally on CAN field bus systems. The company has branches in Hamburg and Dresden.

Presagis is the worldwide leader in embedded graphics solutions for mission-critical display applications. The company has provided human-machine interface (HMI) graphical modeling tools and embedded software drivers for over 20 years. Presagis SeaWind drivers are designed, tested and optimized to run on the ELinOS real-time operating system.

PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in performance-critical middleware and related services. The company develops, markets, and supports a wide range of high-performance, standards-compliant, and cost-effective middleware products which are further differentiated by their unique technical capabilities and advanced productivity tools.

QA Systems fundamental goals are to accelerate and improve software development. The company was founded by Andreas Sczepansky in 1996 in Stuttgart, Germany. QA Systems offers developers, software testers and quality managers both its own products, on a worldwide basis, and carefully selected products from strategic business partners: whether for static or dynamic testing, requirements engineering, architectural analysis or software metrics. In order to provide its customers with the highest levels of service, QA Systems provides consultancy advice to companies and offers long-term and individual support before, during and after the introduction of software. In addition, the transfer of knowledge is promoted in the QA Systems Academy, where experts such as Dr. Scott Meyers and Prof. Les Hatton pass on their know-how and expertise to others. QA Systems has roughly 350 customers, including BMW, Continental and EADS.

Quantum3D develops and markets COTS realtime, open-architecture Image Generation (IG) solutions, Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) systems and subsystems, development software and support services for the synthetic environment visual and sensor simulation and training and tactical and industrial visual computing markets. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL and with sales and logistics in Europe via Quantum3D, Ltd., located in Reading, UK. 

Rapita Systems develops software tools to evaluate the timing performance and test effectiveness of critical real-time embedded systems in industries such as aerospace and automotive engineering. Rapita Verification Suite (RVS) tools increase the efficiency of testing processes; aid identification of performance bottlenecks in the typical resource constrained embedded environment; and reduce the cost of measuring, verifying and optimizing C, C++ and Ada code during on-target development and testing. Composed of dedicated aerospace and automotive variants, each with on-target timing verification (RapiTime) and on-target code coverage measurement (RapiCover) tools, RVS is the streamlined and cost-effective way to conduct on-target timing verification, optimization and code coverage.

Mission: Swell Software, Inc. provides customers with high quality software development tools that significantly reduce development time. Our complete solution includes embedded GUI development tools that work tightly with real-time operating systems, C/C++ compiler suites and reference platforms. Our highly trained on-line technical support makes the software ideal for worldwide markets.

Background: Swell Software, Inc. was founded in 1997 by a group of embedded-system software engineers that saw a need in the marketplace for a better GUI development tool. This vision lead to the creation of PEG and LinuxPEG. Our engineers have a broad range of experience working with real-time embedded systems and graphical interfaces. They found the GUI development tools that were on the market were inadequate and expensive. It was time to build a "better mousetrap" and sell it at a reasonable price, which lead to the creation of PEG in 1997, LinuxPEG in 2000 and C/PEG in 2004. We work closely with our strategic partners who make software and hardware products, when combined with PEG products, provides you with a total solution for real-time embedded-system development. We are located in Port Huron, MI (one hour northeast of Detroit) on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron.

Market: PEG products are used in a variety of embedded applications some of which include MP3 players, handheld GPS unit, wireless TV email system, HTML browser, flight simulator, in-car positioning data recorder, digital camera, audio mixer, engine control diagnostic station, patient vitals monitor, and workstation BIOS to name a few. Products containing embedded solutions are being used in more and more areas of everyday life throughout the world.

Symtavision creates state-of-the-art methods and tools, and provides leading timing analysis expertise for embedded controllers, networks and distributed real-time systems. Its engineering and service team has outstanding expertise in embedded real-time systems design methodology, customer processes and tools.

Symtavision has unique expertise in real-time aspects of integrated control units (including Multi-Core controllers, Functional Safety (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-178B) and AUTOSAR), and embedded networks – including Gateways, Ethernet and Diagnostics.

SYSTEREL's core business is based on development, validation and evaluation of safety- and security-critical real time systems. SYSTEREL brings a strong added value to their customers’ strategic products through a business know-how that perfectly complements their technical and methodological expertise. Significant R&D investments and participation in French and European research projects strengthen this positioning.

The company has its headquarters in Aix en Provence and a development site in Paris. Thanks to their industrial organization, SYSTEREL commits to results on 80% of projects using their own resources.

Since their creation, SYSTEREL having consolidated their position with various industry players in the railway sector, then expanded their activities to include companies like Alstom, Alcatel, Ansaldo, Areva, CNES, EDF, RATP, Siemens, SNCF, and Thales while still maintaining their positioning and strategy.

TTTech is the leading supplier of dependable networking solutions based on time-triggered technology and modular safety platforms. Their solutions improve the safety and reliability of networked computer systems in the transportation and industrial segments. The product portfolio offers best-in-class certifiable products according to DO-254, DO-178B, IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 requirements.

Tieto is an IT service company providing IT, R&D and consulting services. With approximately 16 000 experts, we are among the leading IT service companies in Northern Europe and the global leader in selected segments. We specialize in areas where we have the deepest understanding of our customers' businesses and needs. Our superior customer centricity and Nordic expertise set us apart from our competitors

Vector Software is the world's leading provider of software testing solutions for safety and mission critical embedded applications. Companies worldwide in automotive, aerospace, medical devices, industrial controls, rail, and other industries, rely on Vector Software's VectorCAST. By automating and managing the complex tasks associated with unit, integration, and system level testing, VectorCAST helps organizations accelerate the development and ensure the reliability of their embedded software applications. Founded in 1989 by embedded software engineers, Vector Software is headquartered in East Greenwich, Rhode Island USA; with offices worldwide and a world-class team of support and technology partners.